If you ask, who has the chance to move into the city and get a good job out in the developing world? It’s a man. Who’s left to care for the kids back at home? The woman is.
MELINDA GATESWomen around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.
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It is still just unbelievable to us that diarrhea is one of the leading causes of child deaths in the world.
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Abortion has become a very politicised issue that I think countries have to work out themselves. In a lot of countries, people can’t even yet agree on what their laws should be.
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Deep human connection is … the purpose and the result of a meaningful life – and it will inspire the most amazing acts of love, generosity, and humanity.
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The biggest killers of children around the world are two things: diarrhea and pneumonia. When you think about it, in the United States, kids don’t die of diarrhea anymore, but it’s a huge problem in the developing world.
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You can have the best vaccines for a woman or her child, but if you can’t get her to come and get them then they won’t work.
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Philanthropy is not about the money. It’s about using whatever resources you have at your fingertips and applying them to improving the world.
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My undergraduate work was in computer science and economics. It just happened to be at that time when 34 percent of computer-science majors were women. We didn’t realize it was at the peak at the time.
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I went to business school, and I went straight from that to a nine-year career at Microsoft. Eventually, I ran a big chunk of the consumer products division for Microsoft.Then I left with the birth of our first daughter because Bill and I both wanted to have a few kids.
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I think the Americans need to understand that a lot of times the children are bored in school, and that is why they are not staying in.
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In different places you run into myths around vaccination or around family planning. In the United States, one of the myths that existed for a long time, that has been completely debunked, was that autism was linked to a vaccine.
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Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world.
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We [with Bill Gates] started to make decisions about what we’d invest in. Then I actually started traveling for the foundation. I’ve probably been to India now eight times at least and Africa numerous times.
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If we don’t empower women, we don’t allow them to unlock the potential of themselves and their children.
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Poverty disproportionately affects women around the world.
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A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult.
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